Facsimile edition of the 1974 reissue of Flinders Petrie’s fully illustrated 1927 description and catalog of personal and everyday Egyptian and Roman objects in his collections.
Jewelry items include necklaces, bracelets, rings, and earrings, many made from precious metals and/or incorporating gemstones or beads. Toilet items include mirrors, combs, kohl pots, and sticks. Magic wands, manufactured to provide protection and carved from bone and ivory are described, along with examples carved as hands and found in pairs. Board games are represented by playing pieces and gameboards relating to a number of known games. Toys, writing equipment, fragments of furniture, walking sticks and basketry are all cataloged.
Introduction
1. Neck and head ornaments
2. Bracelets and gold rings
3. Earrings
4. Early stones and Egyptian rings
5. Engraved stones
6. Hair rings, ear studs, buckles, hair pins, combs
7. Kohl tubes and sticks
8. Mirrors
9. Head rests
10. Boxes, spoons, and toilet trays
11. Ivory and bone carving
12. Furniture and woodwork
13. Metal fittings
14. Games
15. Toys
16. Writing
17. Stamps
Index
Plates
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) was a pioneer in the field of ‘modern’ archaeology. He introduced the stratigraphical approach in his Egyptian campaigns that underpins modern excavation techniques, explored scientific approaches to analysis and developed detailed typological studies of artefact classification and recording, which allowed for the stratigraphic dating of archaeological layers. He excavated and surveyed over 30 sites in Egypt, including Giza, Luxor, Amarna and Tell Nebesheh.
